
Simon Buckingham Shum
Director &
Professor of Learning Informatics
“Liminal Space… when you have left the tried and true but have not yet been able to replace it with anything else. If you are not trained in how to hold anxiety, how to live with ambiguity, how to entrust and wait, you will run… anything to flee this terrible cloud of unknowing.” – Richard Rohr

Ruth Deakin Crick
Professor of Learning Analytics & Educational Leadership
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”

Kirsty Kitto
Senior Lecturer (Data Science)
“I don’t know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.” – Richard Feynman

Roberto Maldonado Martinez
Research Fellow (Educational Data Science)
“Data storytelling is the bridge between humans and data science. What is more human than art and telling stories?”
“The goal of innovation isn’t how to change education, but how education can change the world.” -Nathan Lang, Ed.D.

Shibani Antonette
PhD Student (Learning Analytics)
“It’s not about the technology, but how it impacts educational practice.”

Carlos Prieto
PhD Student (Learning Analytics)
“I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”- Thomas Edison

Vanessa Echeverria Barzola
PhD Student
“True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.” – Daniel Kahneman
Sophie Abel
PhD Student
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac
Professional Team
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?” – Winnie The Pooh
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
– Marcus Aurelius
– Carl Friedrich Gauss
– Steve Jobs
– The King of Hearts
Alumni

Theresa Anderson
MDSI Coordinator & Associate Professor

Simon Knight
Research Fellow (Writing Analytics)

Andrew Gibson
Research Fellow (Reflective Writing Analytics)
“Exploring the boundary between the human and machine worlds, and making “the best of the ignorance that one chances to be in” – John Woods

Kailash Awati
Senior Lecturer
“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of data, decisions and
algorithms—
Of multiple meanings…”

Georgia Markakis
Course Manager
“My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work” – Rosa Parks
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as
long as life lasts.”
— Rachel Carson

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